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title: Human rights conditions started to decline by 2007 when torture bega… — Bahrain · tree and pragmatics
description: Human rights conditions started to decline by 2007 when torture began to be employed again. Who acts: rights conditions, torture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Bahrain» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Bahrain, sentence 291

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From Wikipedia, [«Bahrain»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Human rights conditions started to decline by 2007 when torture began to be employed again.

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**Who acts:** rights conditions, torture · **What happens:** start, decline, begin, employ

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bahrain». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rights conditions, torture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Bahrain:291
# text = Human rights conditions started to decline by 2007 when torture began to be employed again.
1	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	decline	decline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | rights conditions |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **decline** | to-infinitive | rights conditions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by 2007 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **begin** | past | torture |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **employ** | to-infinitive · passive | torture *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP» |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Bahrain», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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